We’re in this destructive game of chicken with an unprecedented President who will not swerve, will not move from the middle of the road. So I don’t see this ending in the next few weeks….

Either Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell gets Trump’s proposal through the Senate — but I don’t think that will work — or we come back to the House measure that reopens the Government and whether McConnell will allow it before the Senate.

If he refuses to do that, we will see how far he has dug in for Trump.

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Scott Lucas is Professor of International Politics at the University of Birmingham and editor-in-chief of EA WorldView. He is a specialist in US and British foreign policy and international relations, especially the Middle East and Iran. Formerly he worked as a journalist in the US, writing for newspapers including the Guardian and The Independent and was an essayist for The New Statesman before he founded EA WorldView in November 2008.